OBSERVATIONS ON THE LISTROPHORID (ACARI: LISTROPHORIDAE) FAUNA OF PAKISTAN

About authors:

Bochkov A. V. , Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya emb. 1, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia. Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 1109 Geddes Ave., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA

Barry M. OConnor,

Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
e-mail: bmoc@umich.edu

Acknowledgments:

We thank Drs. Philip Myers (UMMZ) and Steven Goodman (FMNH), who provided access to the host specimens examined in this study. This research was supported by a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation DEB–0118766 (PEET) to BMOC.

Annotation:

Two fur mite (Acari: Listrophoridae) taxa from Pakistan, a new species Aeromychirus fimbriatus sp.n. ex Hylopetes fimbriatus (Gray, 1837) (Sciuridae) and Spalacarus mediolineatus nesokia Fain et Hyland, 1980 ex Nesokia indica (Gray et Hard-wicke, 1830) (Muridae), are described and rede-scribed, respectively.

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